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THE PENGUIN OPERA GUIDE EDITED BY AMANDA HOLDEN WITH NICHOLAS KENYON AND STEPHEN WALSH PREFACE BY SIR COLIN DAVIS PENGUIN BOOKS THE PENGUIN OPERA GUIDE THE PENGUIN OPERA GUIDE EDITED BY AMANDA HOLDEN with NICHOLAS KENYON and STEPHEN WALSH Prefaceb y SIR COLIN DAVIS PENGUIN BOOKS PENGUIN BOOKS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Books Ltd, z7 Wrights Lane, London W8 iTZ, England Penguin Books USA Inc., Hl Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia Penguin Books Canada Ltd, 10 Alcorn Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4V }BZ Penguin Books (NZ) Ltd, 18z-190 Wairau Road, Auckland 10, New Zealand Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England The Viking Opera G11idfei rst published in Great Britain by Penguin Books Ltd 199} First published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Books USA Inc. 1994 This abridged edition with the title The Peng11iOnp era G11idpeu blished in Penguin Books (U.K.) 1994 Published in Penguin Books (U.S.A.) 1996 I } ! 7 9 10 8 6 4 Z Copyright© Amanda Holden, 199}, 1995 All rights reserved ISBN o--670--8iz9}-5 (he.) ISBN 0 14 0Z.pjl 6 (pbk.) Filmset by Datix International Limited, Bungay, Suffolk Printed in England by Clays Ltd, St Ives pie Set in 8/9 pt Monophoto Times Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser Contents Preface by Sir Colin Davis vii About this Book ix Abbreviations xi Glossary xiii Introduction by Rodney Milnes xxi THE PENGUIN OPERA GUIDE A-Z OF COMPOSERS 3 Contributors 509 Index of Librettists 517 Index of Titles 525 Preface BY SIR COLIN DAVIS The Penguin Opera Guide, like its parent, The Viking known works, which prove to have been unworthy of Opera Guide, is wonderful - practical, entertaining, neglect; the repertoire is expanding every year. scholarly. Amanda Holden and her distinguished team This book provides a comprehensive guide to of contributors have produced an essential reference today's richly diverse repertoire. If you're hurrying book for anyone with an interest in opera, from the out to a performance a synopsis can be read in a few ingenue who is merely curious to the most knowledge minutes; spend a few more and you can read the able professional. background to the opera and find points of musical Opera is part of us all, and its bizarre glory reflects interest. The composers are all introduced with the the complexity of our existence. And in the years since essentials of their biographical background. I began conducting opera it has flourished as never What more could you want? Only the music and before. There are audiences everywhere for less well- the stage.
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